Garment hanger



June 23, 1953 M. M. SCHIFFMAN GARMENT HANGER Filed Jan. 11, 1952 @4250 M c/mwmg IIYVENTOR.

Patented June 23, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE GARMENT HAN GER Murray M. Schiffman, New York, N. Y.

Application January 11, 1952, Serial No. 265,938

1 Claim. 1

The present invention relates to garment hangers and more particularly to the type made of a single piece of wire bent into substantially triangular form with a hook extending upwardly from the apex so that the base is horizontal and serves as a pants bar.

The principal object of this invention is to so form the pants bar that the legs of trousers hung thereon are maintained creaseless.

Another object hereof is to provide a garment hanger of the character mentioned, of novel and improved construction, which requires no addi tional material or attachments to afford a pants bar which holds trousers without causing them to become creased.

A further object hereof is to provide a novel and improved garment hanger of the type described, which is cheap and easy to manufacture and efficient in carrying out the purpose for which it is designed.

Other objects and advantages will become apparent as this disclosure proceeds.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Fig. 1 is a front view of a garment hanger made of Wire, embodying the teachings of this invention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section taken at lines 2-2 in Fig. l; the presumption here being that the wire of which the hanger is made is of circular cross section.

Fig. 3 is a similar sectional view presuming the hanger made of Wire whose cross section is square. v

Figs. 4 and 5 show equal cross sections, meaning equal in area, of a round and of a square wire respectively.

Fig. 6 shows the cross section given the pants bar, and such is formed of the material offered by either said round or square wire stock.

Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are enlarged views of the actual structure.

In the drawings, the numeral l5 designates generally a wire garment hanger made of a single piece of wire bent to substantially triangular form with ends twisted as at It above the apex and provided with a hook ll extending upwardly from such apex, to afford a horizontal pants bar it, and the upwardly converging body members it. Automatic machines make hangers of this shape or slight modifications thereof, by forming them from uniform wire from off a reel. The wire used is usually of circular cross section, but

hangers made of square wire have been produced as a commercial article. The size of wire used is usually about inch in diameter for the round wire 20, and about like dimension for the side of the square of square wire 2|. The support offered by a pants bar of such rather small dimensioned material, causes a crease to form around the middle of each trouser leg held directly in contact with such pants bar.

In order to avoid this, I teach to flatten the pants bar of the usual hanger and give it the cross-sectional shape shown either in Fig. 2 or as shown in Fig. 3, where principal notice should be given to the convex pants-supporting surface l8, the chord of whose arc is about four times the cross-sectional lineal dimension aforesaid of the original wire. Using stock as aforesaid to make the hanger, and flattening and shaping the pants bar as herein'taught, supports the trousers so, that there now is about inch of supporting surface along the trouser legs in substantially a horizontal plane. In the example cited, I have taken the material of a {6 inch diameter wire and have made it so that it offers the supporting surface of a rod of about inch in diameter. Such broad and rounded support minimizes creasing of the trouser garments supported on the pants bar fashioned as I teach.

Fig. 6 shows the comparative size which the pants bar cross-section attains from the usual stock wire of the cross sections respectively shown in Figs. 4 and 5. I may here note that the inclusion of the longitudinal rib 22 is preferred in order to attain rigidity. The stiffness of the resulting pants bar, using a particular material, would dictate whether such rib need be included. The nature of the material may be such that the inclusion of such rib may be optional. The flattening of the pants bar portion of the garment hanger may be accomplished by a punch press operation using suitable dies to give the required cross-sectional shape.

It is to be noted that the perimeter of the cross section in relation to area, is substantially a minimum for wires which are of circular, square or other regular polygonal cross-section and that upon flattening same to a very thin but elongated cross section, the perimeter approaches maximum in relation to such area.

This invention is capable of various forms and numerous applications without departing from the essential features herein disclosed. It is therefore intended and desired that the embodiments herein shall be deemed illustrative and not restrictive and that the patent shall cover all pateii-table novelty herein set forth;

3 reference being had to the following claim rather than to the specifically described structure herein to indicate the scope of this invention.

I claim:

A garment hanger made of a single piece of wire bent to include a pants bar portion; the cross section of the wire used, having substantially minimum perimeter in relation to its area and the material of said pants bar portion being in flattened form along substantially its entire length and of a cross section having substantially maximum perimeter in relation to such area; said pants bar portion presenting an upper MURRAY M. SCHIFFMAN.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date Buflin Aug. 7, 1951 Number 

